According to a news release, some bus routes have been consolidated and bus stops will be centrally located within neighborhoods.

Transportation officials began planning for the new school year in May when families of eligible students received a postcard to update bus service needs. The information was then combined with new student needs and the removal of students who left the school system to create the new routes and stops.

Wake County bus drivers are scheduled to make 25,000 stops serving 171 schools.

The Transportation Department will begin accepting requests for bus stop changes after the 20th day of school when ridership settles into fully predictable patterns, the release said.

Linda Kerns KelloggAug 16, 2015

who makes out these absurd schedules? We live less than 3 miles from my son's high school and they have his stop 1.5 hours before school starts at 5:52 am the first of 20 stops. Of course, it's the last stop on the way home. I guess they're trying to be assured parents will make alternate arrangements with such a ridiculous schedule.

Richard MackeyAug 16, 2015

hope they are NOT 50' apart again this year (on the SAME side of the street, in the SAME apt. complex)....